Fix Your Damn Book! (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781365141478)

Fix Your Damn Book! is a self-help manual for writers who have finished a manuscript - a novel, novella, short story, or serial - and who want to self-edit their work to a professional standard and get it on the market. In this instructional and occasionally hilarious book, James Osiris Baldwin - an author and editor with over 8 years of experience as a freelance and staff editor - explains his technique for painlessly and successfully polishing your manuscript to a perfect glow. Fix Your Damn Book! will guide you through: - The seven essential components of successful editing - Getting into the right headspace to edit your own work - Objectively diagnosing problems in your manuscript - The secrets of developmental editing and line editing - Hacks for sharpening your story, character, and dialogue - Grammar, spelling, punctuation, passive voice and tense - Recruiting and making the most out of your first readers - Proofreading and publishing your finished book

Author: James Osiris Baldwin
ISBN-10: 1365141470
ISBN-13: 9781365141478
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2016
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d